✨ Electrical Licensing Requirements
NEW ZEALAND GAZETTE, No. 45 — 27 APRIL 2017
Registration Class
Competence Programme Requirement
All classes of licence
Persons wishing to uplift practising licences:
- Applicants for all classes of practising licence (including the renewal of practising licences) must have completed a Competence Programme as set out in this notice.
- Applicants for all classes of practising licence (including the renewal of practising licences) must have completed a Competence Programme within a period of two years immediately before the date of each application.
A Competence Programme is made up of Board-approved courses of instruction in:
a. electrical safety; and
b. basic first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
A Professional Development Programme constitutes a Competence Programme if it contains a Board-approved course of instruction in:
a. electrical safety; and
b. basic first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation.
Subject material for the electrical safety aspect of Competence Programmes and Professional Development Programmes:
- The required subject material of the electrical safety aspect of a Competence Programme or a Professional Development Programme is set out in Schedule 2 below.
Subject material for the basic first aid and cardio-pulmonary resuscitation aspect of Competence Programmes or a Professional Development Programme:
- Instruction in cardio-pulmonary resuscitation must be provided so as to achieve the CPRL2 requirements of the New Zealand Resuscitation Council. First aid instruction must be provided in accordance with material published by either the New Zealand Red Cross or St John New Zealand. Provided that is the case, the subject material of those courses of instruction will be deemed to be approved by the Board.
Schedule 2 – Part A
All licensed persons not involved in high voltage installation:
The following subject material must be included in the electrical safety aspect of the Competence Programme or a Professional Development Programme for the respective practising licence classes where any person applying for a practising licence is engaged either full-time or part-time on low voltage electrical installations designed and constructed to AS/NZS 3000 and on electrical appliances that are supplied from such installations.
Electrical Inspector Option One and Two
- Supervision.
- Earthing requirements as listed in AS/NZS 3000.
- The installation, operation and testing of residual current devices (RCCB, RCBO, SRCD and PRCD).
- Prospective short circuit currents.
- Testing and certification as listed in AS/NZS 3000, AS/NZS 3760 and the Electricity (Safety) Regulations 2010.
- Inspection of electrical fittings installed by others.
- An update on changes to regulations and/or standards.
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Prescribed Requirements Relating to the Completion of Competence Programmes in Respect of Persons Applying for Practising Licences or Applying for Renewals of Practising Licences
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